New Delhi : Young leaders from Australia and India will come together to discuss regional economic opportunities and global security challenges facing the two nations at the fifth Australia India Youth Dialogue (AIYD) today.Fifteen young Australian leaders (under 40 years of age) will meet 15 of the best and brightest young Indian leaders at AIYD […]
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to file a status report within two weeks on the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi.A Bench headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur passed the order on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) for the apex court monitoring of […]
Colombo : Sri Lanka’s National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) has started working on protecting children who have been subject to abuse, as over 10,000 child abuse cases were reported last year in the island-nation.The NCPA said that it received 10,732 complaints of different forms of child abuse during 2015.Among the complaints reported in 2015, the […]
Washington DC : United States President Barack Obama has announced a ban on solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in the federal prison system and said the practice is overused and has the potential for devastating psychological consequences.Obama outlined a series of executive actions that also prohibit federal correction officials from punishing prisoners who commit ‘low […]
New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will leave the national capital for a 10-day treatment at a naturopathy centre in Bengaluru for his chronic cough tomorrow. Kejriwal will undergo treatment at Jindal Nature Care, where he had undergone treatment even in March last year for his high sugar level and chronic cough.According to […]